While their classrooms couldn’t be more different, Brook Hill’s two new art teachers are united by vision and purpose.

Both in their 20s, their smiles are big, relaxed, and contagious as they talk about the art adventures they’re planning this year.

Bright, cheerful and visually stimulating, walls decorated in primary colors and the bold vocabulary of art technique, these are the phrases that describe the classroom of Sarah DuPree, Brook Hill’s new art teacher for the lower school.

As if taking cue from the art museums of France, where Brook Hill’s new upper school art teacher Lindsay Randall Boone trained, her classroom is awash in natural light and decorated with art posters reminiscent of the paintings they represent.

“Art’s ability to draw someone out — to give them a mode of expression — is its greatest power,” Boone says as Dupree nods. “For us, that is the way we worship, (and) that is how we connect with God’s created world.”

Dupree, a fifth-generation Bullard native, says kindergarten through 5th- graders will be focused on coordinated but grade-specific projects designed to emphasize technique and art history.

She points to the place where she will display an artist and one of the seven elements of art — line, shape, color, value, form, texture, or space — with each new project.

Boone is counting on Dupree to lay a solid foundation, because her goal is to begin specific, individual instruction with each student by the time they reach high school.

She is planning to tailor her instruction to the interests of her students.

“For the student who has never sculpted, but thinks it would be cool, we will sculpt. For the student who has been painting at home, they will get personal instruction.”

A plan exists for the middle schoolers, too.

“With the middle school, we’ll get down and dirty,” Boone said, laughing. “With dripping paint, with food, with body parts like their nose, elbows, and toes.”

All the while, DuPree and Boone will emphase art elements and technique. Both women are rejoicing at the opportunity to teach art at Brook Hill.

“I feel art is my truest passion. I love the way it transforms people,” Boone said.

“I love this community,” Dupree said. “It’s home.”